Mozilla Thunderbird

[Graeme Kerry]

Hi everyone,

I agree with Gill on this issue. I was very pleased to find Ubuntu
uses Firefox as its web browser and am a bit confused as to why
Evolution is used when another great Mozilla alternative is available.
I use Thunderbird as my default mail program under both Windows XP and
Mac OS X and plan to install Thunderbird on Ubuntu when I get round to
it.

Is there any particular reason why Evolution was chosen as the
standard. It does seem a pretty heavy weight solution (a groupware
application) to a pretty lightweight problem (email).

Graeme Kerry



On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:22:59 -0500, R S Gill <rsgill at purdue.edu> wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> This is just a suggestion.
> 
> How about making Mozilla Thunderbird the default e-mail program in Ubuntu.
> 
> Evolution is very resouce intensive (frequently just sits there
> "Formating message") and, at least for me, crashes often.  In addition,
> spam filtering takes a long time.
> 
> Just from an ease of use and performance perspective, why not default to
> THunderbird instead.
> 
> For those who really want/need it, Evolution is but and apt-get away.
> 
> Gill
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